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Opinion: Are universities morphing into Orwellian states?
by jim bell 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-universities-morphing-into-orwellian-… [partial quote follows] "Americans are experimenting with methods similar to China’s social credit system. By tracking student movements and regulating faculty to standards of political correctness, they risk socializing young people to the methods of high-tech authoritarian state control. Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina and others are installing wi-fi apps and Bluetooth devices to monitor class attendance and visits to libraries, recreation centers, dining halls and potentially every other campus location. These create profiles that faculty and administrators can use to reward good learning habits, flag mental health issues, and impel students to modify personal habits to norms of model student behavior." ---------------------------- I wonder if anyone criticized Orwell, saying something like, 'That kind of thing couldn't happen here'. (whereever 'here' happened to be for that person.) Probably quite frequently. Jim Bell

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Opinion: Are universities morphing into Orwellian states?
by jim bell 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-universities-morphing-into-orwellian-… [partial quote follows] "Americans are experimenting with methods similar to China’s social credit system. By tracking student movements and regulating faculty to standards of political correctness, they risk socializing young people to the methods of high-tech authoritarian state control. Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina and others are installing wi-fi apps and Bluetooth devices to monitor class attendance and visits to libraries, recreation centers, dining halls and potentially every other campus location. These create profiles that faculty and administrators can use to reward good learning habits, flag mental health issues, and impel students to modify personal habits to norms of model student behavior." [end of partial quote]

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The Daily Beast: Up Against the Coronavirus, China's Surveillance State Has Failed
by jim bell 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

The Daily Beast: Up Against the Coronavirus, China's Surveillance State Has Failed. https://www.thedailybeast.com/up-against-the-coronavirus-chinas-surveillanc…

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House Republicans Blast U.K.'s 'Dangerous' Huawei 5G Decision, Accuse Boris Johnson of Choosing China Over U.S.
by jim bell 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

https://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-blast-uk-dangerous-huawei-5g-dec…

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Many happy Returns!
by Razer 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

January 28 2020 0953 pst, bash ping cpunks.org returns "64 bytes from antiproton.jfet.org (209.141.47.85)" https://web.jfet.org/ "Questions? Comments?" rsw(a)jfet.org Riad S. Wahby "I am a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford, working with Dan Boneh and Keith Winstein. Broadly speaking, I work on designing and building secure hardware and software systems, tackling questions like "how can we build trustworthy chips?" and "how can we build operating systems that resist subversion by malicious hardware?" https://wahby.org/

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Assassination or Decapitation? U.S. Gets Kim Jong-un’s Attention – InsideSources
by jim bell 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

https://www.insidesources.com/assassination-or-decapitation-u-s-gets-kim-jo…

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Who's Spying Your Phone 2020, Pine Librem, via Braxman
by grarpamp 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-axLHh5V8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLWBaW4f38I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNItvMBIXyQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Collection_System_Network Pinephone switches not externally accessible.

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Roman Yushkov (Russia) awarded damages in persecution suit - dozens jailed in Germany
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Speak, or lose the right to speak. Defend the right of others to speak, or lose your own right to speak. Peace. Russian Holocaust Denier Wins Damages in Persecution Suit While German Truth-Tellers Rot in Jail https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-holocaust-denier-wins-damages-persecu… https://russia-insider.com/en/tales-holohoax There is consternation that the outcome of high court litigation in Russia has supported the right of holocaust critics and investigators (holocaust deniers) the right to publish their findings and beliefs. Investigation of the holocaust narrative is illegal in much of Europe. On January 21, the Leninsky District Court of Perm decided to award Perm civil activist Roman Yushkov 50 thousand rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage for his being persecuted in connection with his right to publicly claim that the holocaust is a scam sponsored by politicians dependent upon Jewish patronage. ... >From the "great news from Russia" department of the right to speak.

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Roman Yushkov (Russia) awarded damages in persecution suit - dozens jailed in Germany
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Speak, or lose the right to speak. Defend the right of others to speak, or lose your own right to speak. Peace. Russian Holocaust Denier Wins Damages in Persecution Suit While German Truth-Tellers Rot in Jail https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-holocaust-denier-wins-damages-persecu… https://russia-insider.com/en/tales-holohoax There is consternation that the outcome of high court litigation in Russia has supported the right of holocaust critics and investigators (holocaust deniers) the right to publish their findings and beliefs. Investigation of the holocaust narrative is illegal in much of Europe. On January 21, the Leninsky District Court of Perm decided to award Perm civil activist Roman Yushkov 50 thousand rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage for his being persecuted in connection with his right to publicly claim that the holocaust is a scam sponsored by politicians dependent upon Jewish patronage. ... >From the "great news from Russia" department of the right to speak.

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Radio: SDR... Amp Your Rig to 500kW and Beyond
by grarpamp 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHjcwIoTiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9nGzIzSPw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Creek_Naval_Radio_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roumoules_radio_transmitter USB for plugging RTL-SDR and gadgets... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22152736 https://www.usb-hubs.org/

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